Robab Moheb was born in 1953 Ahvaz, southeast Iran. After finishing secondary school, she studied sociology at the University of Teheran. 2004 she received a Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Växjö and a Masters degree from the University of Stockholm. In 2008 she published her first translations of Swedish poetry into Farsi in collaboration with the renowned Swedish poets Kristina Lugn, Ida Börjel and Katarina Grippenberg.